"Mortg. house and land" to Henry Cooke (16 FEB 1655 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts)
Purchased five acres from his brother-in-law Nathan Cooke
Mortgage of land to H. Cooke: Essex Land Records 1:7
Purchase of land from N. Cooke: Essex Land Records 1:26

His will "Admin. 26 (4) 1662."

A John, TALBIE or TALBY, son of John of Salem, was apprenticed t o a Henry Cooke on "29 (11) 1655." This John's mother, Dorothy , was executed in 1639 for the murder of a child named Difficult , and had appeared in court in 1637 for "violent actions toward " his father. The date and place seems to make this person ou r Henry.

Inventory of his estate, taken, 14 January 1661/2 showed a deb t of 2 lbs. 10s owed to Ezekial Wathen.

On 10 December, 1649, he mortgaged his shop, house and one acr e of land to his father-in-law, Henry Birdsall. And on 16 Feb 1 654/5, he purchased five acres of land in Salem from his brother -in-law, Nathan Cooke.

I have found several reports on the web that Henry was the chil d of Edmund and Elizabeth (Nichols) Cooke, but have as yet been unable to find any corroborating evidence

? Questioned: The names Henry Cook(e), Edmund Cook(e), and Elizabeth Nichols do not appear in the Great Migration Begins books. Henry Cooke also does not appear as a profile in The Great Migration 1634-1635.